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Re: mutt - slow mbox'es



On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 04:46:24AM -0400, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 04:24:48AM EDT, David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:33:32AM EDT, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
> 
> > > > Who says you can't have your cake and eat it too?
> > > 
> > > is it true, that mbx isn't NFS safe?
> 
> Another option, of course, is to use a filesystem designed specifically
> for mail, like IMAP, instead of NFS.  An advantage there is that the IMAP

Er, surely IMAP isn't a 'filesystem' in the same sense that NFS is,
IMAP is a specification for accessing mail.  An IMAP server could run
on a NFS filesystem (though it might well not be a good idea!).

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Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxx)